1, jiaozi. The customs of begging for cleverness in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places are very interesting: seven good girls collect food and vegetables, jiaozi, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. After begging for cleverness, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early married with dates.

2. proper fruit. On this day, all parts of Zhejiang make all kinds of small objects with flour, which are called "proper fruit" after frying in oil. At night, proper fruit, lotus, white lotus root and Hong Ling are displayed in the courtyard. Proper fruit is the most famous festive food for the Qixi Festival. Proper fruit, also known as "Kiki Kiki Fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey. "Dream of China in Tokyo" refers to it as "laughing at children" and "fruit eating patterns", while the patterns include holding incense and winning.

3, clever bud noodles. In addition to eating proper fruit, in some places, on the seventh day of July, we eat smart bud noodles. To make bean sprouts for smart bud noodles, you should choose a small bowl of mung beans that are not eaten by insects seven days in advance, wash them, spread them on a plate, cover them with wet gauze to block the sun, put them on the kang, and spray water several times a day to keep them moist. Seven days later, when the bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters long, they can be made into handmade noodles, cooked in a pot and pulled through with cold water; Then put oil in a hot pan, add diced meat and stir-fry, stir-fry onion and ginger, stir-fry soy sauce and vinegar, stir-fry mung bean sprouts, add water and boil, then add salt and monosodium glutamate to make bean sprout soup; Grab the noodles into a bowl and pour them with bean sprout soup.

4. Cloud surface. Jiaodong people eat clever fruit on Tanabata, while Linyi people eat cloud noodles on Tanabata. Eat cloud noodles, which have to be made of dew, and you can get clever meaning by eating it.

5, rice noodles. Old Nanjing people also have a unique custom of celebrating Tanabata: eating glutinous rice. Jiang Mi Tiao is a snack of Han nationality, which is made by steaming glutinous rice flour with bean flour in a stew pot, beating it with a stick in a stone mortar, drying it in the sun and frying it in oil, and finally dipping it in bean paste such as plum blossom, pine blossom and sesame.